Apparently unsatisfied with Rep. Thompson’s telephone Town Hall on Health Insurance Reform, the local Tea Party People have decided to throw their own — with experts to answer your questions. Here’s the announcment:
Calling All Patriots
To Town Hall on Health Care
Wed. Aug 26, 6 p.m.
Fortuna Veteran’s Memorial Bldg.
1426 Main St. Fortuna
Presented by HUMBOLDT TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
Free event – donations accepted to cover rental expense.
After repeated attempts to work with Rep. Mike Thompson, the TEA PARTY PATRIOTS are going to host a community Health Care Town Hall.
Rural communities are often overlooked and unrepresented.
Come and see how it is going to affect you, your family and the businesses. What is this really going to cost? How it will change the American Health Care system and what is in the bill?
A Panel of Experts will answer your questions.
Seating is limited. Advanced tickets will be available @ our meeting Thurs. Aug 20 , 6 p.m. Redwood Acres Fairgrounds
Update via Old Glory Radio Blog: The panel of experts scheduled to attend and discuss the Health Care issue are Jeff Miller, insurance agent, Dr. Rigney, MD, Lawrence Wiesner, accountant, and an as yet un-scheduled hospital representative.
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First, I wanted to say to anyone as confused as I was trying to leave a comment and not seeing a post box. You have to register at the home page and wait for an email to get you in.
That said, it works if figure that out.
As for the TEA Parties,
they seem to be upset because in the telephone town halls, people take turns talking and listening without shouting over each other. Too civilized for these people.
These hippies should get a job. What? They’re retired and on Medicare? How many of them are willing to give that up in the name of freedom and lower taxes?
These people confuse me more than trying to figure out how to post on this blog. Oh well, I think I figured this blog thing out, maybe I’ll understand these people some day.
Does anybody know where Thompson is on the public option?
The Patriots were on the local TV news tonight. They went to Thompson’s office in Eureka to invite him to their Town Hall. It seemed there was no one home, so they slipped an invite under the door.
Eric, in answer to your question, here’s a quote from "a piece by Thompson I found on Huffington Post." :
"A public plan that provides true competition will be an important part of this reform. According to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a widely respected non-profit health policy research foundation, nearly two thirds of Americans agree with me that we need to make sure that all Americans have access to affordable health care by providing an alternative to the private insurance options that are on the market."
Private insurance works great until you get sick.
AJ, unless you happen to know which sickness you will contract before you sign up and don’t have any pre existing reasons to keep you from being insured. Maybe you are lucky enough to be able to win the gamble that is called, insuring your health. If everyone could predict that, the insurance companies would go out of business.
Before buying private insurance, you might want to see a palm reader. That is unless you are a christian and not allowed to see one. In that case you already know what Jesus would say about helping the sick and poor and therefor already support single payer or a public option.
I believe you misinterpreted my comment. You’re talking to someone whose wife was expected to return to work 2 weeks after giving birth regardless of any medical complications… if she wanted to remain insured. (There are huge loopholes in family medical leave laws.)
The more popular version of my previous comment goes, "Insurance is great until you have to use it."
It’s infuriating knowing the type of system that tea baggers are defending.
The "system" definitely needs reform. Skyrocketing costs are probably the biggest problem, even ahead of covering the uninsured, because that really does affect all but the truly wealthy. I’m not sure where I stand on a public option; not all slopes are slippery and so it doesn’t necessarily mean eventual death panels or some Orwellian Medical Overlord Nightmare. But the eventuality I worry about is being taxed significantly more to fund a huge, sluggish, bureaucratic system of fraud and incompetence. President Obama (whom I voted for), speaking about the public option not being a fearful potential competition crusher, recently used the example of UPS & FedEx not being crushed by the government operated Post Office in the delivery biz. Well, as far as actually getting the job done his example gets stood upon head: UPS (my employer) and FedEx are dynamic, flexible, adaptable, profitable, and keep costs down while still providing and increasing services. The Post Office…is..well, the Post Office. $7 billion in the hole, currently. UPS made nearly a billion profit in the last quarter. No comparison, Mr. President. Do I want that for my Health Care? Nope. As long as I get to keep my private insurance, we’ll be cool. And don’t tax my health benefits, dammit, or we’ll burn HHS down. Teabaggers will look like little league compared to 250,000 angry Teamsters. But..sigh…we do need, all of us, to find some way to get coverage for all the lower paying working folk, the sick, the truly needy, without breaking our economy or rationing.
BTW: Tom, I’m a Christian, and I go to palm readers all the time.